asciilifeform: smaller, yes. but this is not immediately apparent to the borrower.
asciilifeform: then the idea of paying back begins to feel like pure rape
asciilifeform: undata: but let's say you have a martian contraption that craps out complete horses on demand, at no cost, at the push of a button
asciilifeform: undata: let's put another way. if we're subsistence farmers, neighbours, i borrow your horse - then you ask for it back plus p% of harvest, and it makes a kind of hind brain sense because you were deprived of a horse for a spell, after all
asciilifeform: ahahaha and the ethernet on this thing flickers in and out.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: he did say 'fig leaf'
asciilifeform: decimation: 'ebay' bursting with chinese amps
asciilifeform: i mean, back to the story, all i had to do is reach across desk and grab a ttl serial octopus. but what are folks supposed to do who don't have one?
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: you'll notice these in the photo
asciilifeform: even my local isp ships router with two screw-socket antennae
asciilifeform: decimation: most of the consumer trashware have external antennae sockets, wtf
asciilifeform: (not in service because laughably small flash disk, not linuxifiable)
asciilifeform: funnily, i have a circa-1998 wireless router, that has precisely this form
asciilifeform: metal case on wireless access gizmo? lol
asciilifeform beginning to think that networking hardware that behaves sanely out of the box was banned, and no one told him
asciilifeform: sed income, but that is the price of freedom.'
asciilifeform: 'What this means in practice, for me at least, is that as soon as it starts looking like I am heading in the direction of acquiring a specific job title or job description, or getting involved in something that might require registration, certification or licensing, then I need to backtrack or head in a different direction for a bit, until everybody loses interest. In doing so I sometimes forgo some opportunities for an increa
